Q: My lawn care guy planted about 30 of the Asian jasmine plants in a bed along my walk to give us nice ground cover. Instead of it flourishing it just kept dying back. We had a problem with the soil ...

Q Someone suggested that you could help me identify this ground cover that is in the medians in front of Kroger Marketplace on Chenal Parkway in Little Rock. It's very thick and I don't think it ...

Q. I planted Asiatic jasmine to become a ground cover, but with the rains, weeds are also growing among the plants. Is there a weed-control product to use with this planting? A. A mixture of jasmine ...

Q: Is this a good time to plant Asian jasmine groundcover? I’m replacing an area where it’s been difficult to maintain our lawn. A: Perhaps not. It’s most commonly planted from 4-inch pots or quart ...

Dear Neil: Is this a good time to plant Asian jasmine ground cover? I’m replacing an area where it’s been difficult to maintain our lawn. A: Perhaps not. It’s most commonly planted from 4-inch pots or ...

There probably never will be a grass that grows well in shade. Alternatives that are effective and much less frustrating include hard-surface materials such as decomposed granite, flagstone, lava ...

My Asiatic jasmine ground cover is looking a little ragged and I would like to prune it. Is this a good time to do it? It is indeed the time to shape up your Asiatic jasmine (Trachelospermum asiaticum ...

You may have heard of the old garden adage "One man's weed is another man's flower," especially if you like to grow your yard wild, either because you want to bring more pollinators to the yard or ...

I have Asiatic jasmine as ground cover under oak trees. The shoots are growing up the trees and I wonder if this will eventually kill the trees… It’s always tempting to allow vining plants to grow up ...

The usual reason to replace one of the lawn grasses with another type of groundcover is because there is too much shade to support a grass variety. Even the most shade-tolerant grass, St. Augustine, ...

Q: We planted Asian jasmine in a large, mostly shaded area. It was growing nicely, but now it looks as if something ate it down to about one-inch stubs. What animals eat it this time of year? Also, ...